Woot my first fire!

Apr 17, 2009 22:26

I was cooking dinner and my pager went off so I donned my turnouts in record time, snagged the keys to my roommate's van a headed off to respond to my first call. It was just a little bit of grass on a street corner. I helped put out cones and block the road while one of guys that responded with the engine used a booster line to soak the corner ( Read more... )

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lauinav April 18 2009, 08:21:16 UTC
Mighty woots to the Firewuff! ^_^

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lupercus_wuff April 18 2009, 21:39:09 UTC
*Wags excitedly*

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jarrardi April 18 2009, 15:54:08 UTC
Arr! You burn dinner! Yay Lupe! *hugs* It's a thrilling experience, isn't it? Glad it went better than my first call... :-3

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lupercus_wuff April 18 2009, 21:38:42 UTC
I didn't burn dinner... I handed that task of, but it was kinda cold when i got home. ;)

It realy is, adrenaline is gooood. >:) I take it your's was one of those fun sort of days?

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jarrardi April 19 2009, 05:32:21 UTC
*giggles and snugs yah* Cold dinner is a much better thing to come home to than warm rubble! OFD is set up so that Dispatch can shut off the station's stoves remotely for that very reason, actually. :-3
My first call was in the final throes of a very boring week, a one-car rollover a little before 4am that was cancelled two miles out because they drove off without event beyond the heaving cougar in the jump seat who'd just found out that everything they tell you in training is totally wrong and motion sickness is, way, way worse when you're in the back of a moving ambulence on a call. Suriously, have you ever tried to suction yourself? o.0

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firesplace April 18 2009, 19:05:08 UTC
Woohoo! Way to go! (*highfive*) =D

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lupercus_wuff April 18 2009, 21:36:12 UTC
*highfives and tailwags* I love this, :)

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fyrdawg April 19 2009, 02:18:46 UTC
*high paws to da' woof*..
Well that sounds better than my first call. Hint when you have to run back into the house to ask direction it's never a good sign.

Congrats

Fyr

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lupercus_wuff April 19 2009, 02:21:59 UTC
lol, truth there buddy.

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